Hospital Simulation Model

Surgical procedures are the main constituents of the hospital activity. Surgical procedures are applied on patients waiting in wards or intensive care unit from where the patients are moved to the recovery space. The operating theatre is so a core method that impacts on the complete hospital, as bed capability as an example is additionally needed for treatment, which would not lead to operation. That specialize in the overall flow perspective, scarce human and physical resources for surgical procedures need to be allotted in an optimum trade off so as to empower the hospital to work with efficiency. Several resolution techniques are applicable to search out the optimum work load, however primarily resolution techniques aims on optimising the schedule in unpredicted demand environments and optimising the patient flow, for an example, by eliminating extra waits between surgeries caused by occupied recovery areas. In such areas simulation is considered as a suitable approach to find

The project is dedicated to two case studies, the first within the Middleheim hospital in urban center that investigates the consultation and surgery unit of the hospital, the second within the catheterization facility of the university hospital of Gasthuisberg. The employment of integrated care pathways eases the event of the simulation models as a result of the trail of the patient is already well documented and comparatively easy to derive and to integrate during a simulation model. Collaborative action of these methods during a simulation model guarantees that the model replicates the behaviour of the clinic. Investigation on the model shows the results of the difference within the bed capability to bed usage. During this explicit study unused bed capability is freed owing to the findings of the simulation model (Cardoen and Demeulemeester,